Forum - View topicJason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Bringing Home The Sushi
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Lord Geo
Posts: 2697 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
|
|||||
|
Wow, I had no idea that any bit of Kosaku Shima was ever released in North America, nor did I even know about the Kodansha Bilingual Edition. I admittedly will likely never read it, but I have to admire the idea behind it, where Kosaku Shima keeps going up the corporate ladder, and every time he does the currently-running series ends followed by the start of the new series. It's definitely a novel idea.
|
||||||
|
||||||
LaFreccia
 Posts: 324 |
|
|||||
|
I was able to pick up a used copy of Kosaku Shima, which was pretty interesting. It is very sad that we don't have access to more works on office life (whether salarymen or office ladies). It could go a long way towards expanding the American market for manga and anime if there were something that older people could relate to.
BTW, another series to check out is Salaryman Kintaro. There was a US release of the animation a few years back, but I don't think the manga has ever seen an American release). |
||||||
|
||||||
|
ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
Posts: 357 Location: San Francisco |
|
|||||
Actually, Salaryman Kintaro has come out in English, but only in a really badly translated cellphone manga edition from NTT Solmare. I wish it was available in a decent format. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Lord Geo
Posts: 2697 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
|
|||||
Actually, it's available for Apple products too, as my friend bought all 30 volumes of Salaryman Kintaro for his iPad... He also admitted that it cost him a pretty penny in the end, but he felt it was worth it as he really enjoyed it. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Dop.L
Posts: 725 Location: London |
|
|||||
|
I remember back in the late 1980s at a convention in Glasgow where at the last night 'dead dog party' a Japanese attendee passed around a few issues of a manga he'd brought with him.
"Oh wow!", we thought, "Comics about cooking!" It was the first time any of us had ever seen any manga. (must avoid lapsing into Four Yorkshireman sketch...) |
||||||
|
||||||
Great Rumbler
 Posts: 335 Location: Oklahoma |
|
|||||
|
Don't forget about Japan Inc.!
|
||||||
|
||||||
Snomaster1
 SubscriberPosts: 2943 |
|
|||||
|
Forgive me,but a business manga? That seems just a little bit weird to me. And to be honest,I can't imagine any businessman wearing an American flag business suit to a business meeting. That's a little bizarre to me. But then,this whole genre is a bit strange to me too.
|
||||||
|
||||||
st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
|
|||||
There's manga about pretty much everything. Mahjong, card games, pretty much every sport you care to name, cooking. I could go on. Business is probably one of the least strange kinds, to be honest. |
||||||
|
||||||
|
Shenl742
Posts: 1525 |
|
|||||
I wanna see a manga about professional curling! 
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
st_owly
Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
|
|||||
|
If you look hard enough, there probably is one
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Lord Geo
Posts: 2697 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
|
|||||
Talk to Erin Finnegan about it... She'll direct you toward curling manga. |
||||||
|
||||||
Melanchthon
 Posts: 550 Location: Northwest from Here |
|
|||||
Sadly, not much has improved for the average Japanese working women. |
||||||
|
||||||
RestLessone
 Posts: 1426 Location: New York |
|
|||||
Well, there's Orange Delivery or Chizu Kohashi's Sweep!!  I secretly wish for Sweep!! to be licensed.
|
||||||
|
||||||
The Goron Marshall
 Posts: 111 Location: Canada |
|
|||||
The manga industry is in a rut as it is. Not even manga about salarymen and business corporations will be enough to appeal to older folk, sad as it is. Though, more manga releases in different genres would be great... This book looks interesting to me, wish it were still around. |
||||||
|
||||||
Chagen46
 Posts: 4377 |
|
|||||
I may be wrong, but I think that Salaryman manga is like the 2nd buggest manga genre in Japan. |
||||||
|
||||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group